Liberian Literary Magazine
can create a space of agency
and even pleasure for black
female
subjects.
Nash's
innovative
readings
of
hardcore pornographic films
from the 1970s and 1980s
develop a new method of
analyzing
racialized
pornography that focuses on
black women's pleasures in
blackness: delights in toying
with
and
subverting
blackness,
moments
of
racialized
excitement,
deliberate enactments of
hyperbolic blackness, and
humorous performances of
blackness that poke fun at the
fantastical project of race.
Drawing on feminist and
queer theory, critical race
theory, and media studies,
Nash creates a new black
feminist
interpretative
practice, one attentive to the
messy
contradictions—
between
delight
and
discomfort, between desire
and degradation—at the heart
of black pleasures.
The Defender: How the
Legendary Black Newspaper
Changed America by Ethan
Michaeli
Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
the
Chicago
Defender
condemned
Jim
Crow,
catalyzed
the
Great
Migration, and focused the
electoral power of black
America. Robert S. Abbott
founded
The Defender in 1905,
smuggled
hundreds
of
thousands of copies into the
most isolated communities in
the segregated South, and
was dubbed a "Modern Moses,"
becoming one of the first
black millionaires in the
process.
His
successor
wielded the newspaper’s
clout to elect mayors and
presidents, including Harry S.
Truman and John F. Kennedy,
who would have lost in 1960 if
not for The Defender’s
support. Along the way, its
pages were filled with
columns by legends like Ida B.
Wells, Langston Hughes, and
Martin Luther King.
Drawing on
dozens
of
interviews and extensive
archival
research, Ethan
Michaeli
constructs
a
revelatory narrative of race in
America and brings to life the
reporters who braved lynch
mobs and policemen’s clubs
to do their jobs, from the age
of Teddy Roosevelt to the age
of Barack Obama.
Slavery by Another Name:
The
Re-Enslavement of
Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II by
Douglas A. Blackmon
In
this
groundbreaking
historical expose, Douglas A.
Blackmon brings to light one
of
the
most shameful
Giving voice to the voiceless,
15
chapters in American history—
an “Age of Neoslavery” that
thrived from the aftermath of
the Civil War through the
dawn of World War II.
Using a vast record of
original
documents
and
personal narratives, Douglas
A. Blackmon unearths the lost
stories of slaves and their
descendants who journeyed
into freedom after the
Emancipation Proclamation
and then back into the
shadow
of
involuntary
servitude shortly thereafter.
By turns moving, sobering,
and
shocking,
this
unprecedented
account
reveals the stories of those
who fought unsuccessfully
against the re-emergence of
human labor trafficking, the
companies that profited most
from neoslavery, and the
insidious legacy of racism that
reverberates today.